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headphones / earphones / telephone receiver
HSK 4
ear / CL: 隻|只, 個|个, 對|对 / handle (on a cup)
HSK 5
sweet-sounding / beautiful (of sound)
HSK 7-9
a slap on the face / CL: 記|记
HSK 7-9
a pleasant change / a breath of fresh air / refreshing
HSK 7-9
what's frequently heard can be repeated in detail (idiom)
HSK 7-9
flushed with anger (or excitement)
HSK 7-9
to whisper to one another's ear
HSK 7-9
to witness personally
HSK 7-9
ear-piercing
HSK 7-9
Turkey
tinnitus
to bend an ear (to) / to listen
Germanic
ear pick
loyal advice jars on the ears (idiom)
whispering in sb's ear
lit. like thunder piercing the ear / a well-known reputation (idiom)
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ear / handle (archaeology) / and that is all (Classical Chinese)
Second book of Samuel
inner ear
ear pick
(bird species of China) brown-eared bulbul (Hypsipetes amaurotis)
Argus / in Greek mythology, a monster with 100 eyes, transformed into peacock's tail
lit. to treat (what sb says) as wind past your ear / fig. to completely disregard
Fresnel lens
stud earring
earwax
(idiom) you cannot always trust what you hear, but seeing is believing
outer ear
middle ear
deaf
speech that grates on the ear (idiom); bitter truths / home truths (that one does not want to hear)
to be the acknowledged leader (from the custom of a prince holding a plate on which lay the severed ears of a sacrificial bull at an alliance ceremony)
ear piercing hole; earring hole
wood ear; jelly ear (edible fungus) / CL:
headphones / earphones
(of sound) to never stop / to fall incessantly on the ear / to linger on
chameleon plant; fish mint (Houttuynia cordata), esp. its edible rhizome
eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane
(bird species of China) blue-eared barbet (Psilopogon cyanotis)
ear ornament (earring, eardrop, stud etc)
Malta
Siberian cocklebur (botany)
to hear of / to hear about
base of the ear / ear / (Buddhism) sense of hearing
(idiom) 60 years old
(bird species of China) silver-eared mesia (Leiothrix argentauris)
eyes and ears / sb's attention or notice / information / knowledge / spies
to tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc) (idiom)
outer ear; auricle; pinna
in-ear monitor (abbr. for 耳機返聽系統|耳机返听系统) (contrasted with 地返)
fennec / Vulpes zerda
earmuff / CL:
white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / silver tree-ear fungus
(anatomy) ear canal
cochlea
outer ear / auricle / pinna
lit. to cover one's ears whilst stealing a bell / to deceive oneself / to bury one's head in the sand (idiom)
to block one's ears and not listen (idiom); to turn a deaf ear
to prick up one's ear / to listen attentively
to listen with respectful attention / (a polite request to sb to speak) / we are all ears
earlobe
with one's own ears
pleasing to the ear
earwax / cerumen
ear-splitting (idiom); deafening
the walls have ears (idiom)
ear-splitting
to be hearing impaired
sharp ears and keen eyes (idiom) / keen and alert / perceptive
to approach sb's ear (to whisper)
to fool people (idiom) / to pull the wool over people's eyes
eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane
(coll.) a slap on one's face / a cuff
fat; plump; chubby
words still ringing in one's ears (idiom)
(loanword) joule
sb with preternaturally good hearing (in fiction) / fig. a well-informed person
unpleasant to hear / grates on the ear (of home truths)
auriculotherapy (ear acupuncture)
to be influenced
lit. as the autumn breeze passes the ear (idiom); not in the least concerned
raucous / ear-splitting
Turkish (language)
tipsy and merry (idiom)
earpick / curette
subauricular gland / parotid gland (salivary gland in the cheek)
headphones
porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) / blue-ear swine fever
Lao Zi
Nie Er (1912-1935), musician and composer of the PRC national anthem March of the Volunteer Army 義勇軍進行曲|义勇军进行曲
(coll.) to whisper in sb's ear
hearing ability
benign paroxysmal positional vertigo; BPPV
otolith
inflammation of middle ear / otitis media
slap
trunnion / protrusions on either side of a cannon facilitating mounting and vertical pivot

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